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  • AT&T making tourists even more annoying with free Times Square WiFi

    AT&T making tourists even more annoying with free Times Square WiFi

    Posted on May 25, 2010 | No Comments
    AT&T's master plan to relieve 3G data congestion in New York City? Give the crush of upward-facing tourists in Times Square free WiFi. AT&T will announce its first ever free outdoor WiFi hotspot later today located at the north central part of Times Square, near 7th Avenue between 45th and 47th Street. Qualifying AT&T customers with smartphones like the iPhone will automatically switch from 3G data to WiFi when in range. Great, just what Times Square needs: smartphone wielding pedestrians enticed by fast data to be even more oblivious to the pace of busy New Yorkers. If successful, AT&T will add WiFi hotspots to other high-traffic areas... and hopefully help push through tourist-lane legislation that could solve NYC's real congestion problems.

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  • Nope, the New Yorker doesn’t like the Kindle very much

    Nope, the New Yorker doesn’t like the Kindle very much

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Usually when I read a long article, I'll say something like, “Free up 20 minutes so you can read the whole thing.” I'm not sure I'm going to say that today, having just finished an article in the New Yorker, which is usually good for a profile or two, about the Kindle. And it's not because the article is down on the Kindle—I don't own any Amazon stock, so I don't care if Kindle sinks or swims—but because it doesn't really say anything that you probably didn't already know.

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